Baby only wants solids

My son will be 6 months in 5 days and has started having purees for a few weeks.
He wasn’t too bothered at first and only had 1 or 2 ice cubes but for the past few days he has started to live his food so much.
Only thing is that he isn’t interested in his bottle anymore... I always start with a bottle when he cries for food, he will down 3/4oz max and then pushes it and moans, pushes back with his tongue etc.
I then put him in his chair get the purée out he opens his mouth wide and devours 5/6 ice cubes in a few minutes and asks for more. Then I give him the rest of the bottle he has a few sips pushes it back looks at me with his mouth wide open but sticks his tongue out when I stick the bottle in!

So now in a day he is only around 600/650ml, 100ml of it being mixed with baby cereals which he likes.

As he has CMPA I can’t give hi dairies either... we think that maybe his alfamino formula isn’t that good so now that he knows something else he doesn’t like it anymore...?

Anyone else’s baby has suddenly started refusing milk? (He used to drink 850/900ml a day) I am a bit worried that he will be lacking nutrients calcium etc

Comments (24)

Our daughter is on Nutramigen for CMPA. They have a level 2 milk which is advised to be used when weaning as there is a higher calcium content due to LO (little one) taking less fluid because of eating solids.

Our daughter is on Nutramigen for CMPA. They have a level 2 milk which is adv...

Posted
23/03/2018

Our daughter is on Nutramigen for CMPA. They have a level 2 milk which is advised to be used when weaning as there is a higher calcium content due to LO taking less fluid because of eating solids.
Could there be an option like that for you?

I am not sure a follow on milk exists for Alfamino, it was a 6 weeks test so I need to call the dietician next week to discuss about carrying on so I will ask the question, thank you!

Hiya I was reading the other day about this and how and when our babies will ...

Posted
24/03/2018

Hiya I was reading the other day about this and how and when our babies will drop feeds.

Don't know how accurate it is but it said from 6 mths and as they start to eat more babies need 500-600ml of formula a day!

If this is right i would say the 600 ml you are getting him to take is fine! Again I'm no expert!!

Xxx

Thanks I also read in the leaflet that the dietician gave me that 600ml a day should be enough. I just didn’t expect it to go from 900 to 600 over the course of a few days! Also I hope I give him enough solids to compensate... but I guess he would let me know if he was still hungry!

We struggled to make him have 620ml yesterday so I just hope he won’t drop it anymore than that!

I had a hell of a time with my first, he hated milk. He stopped having milk at bedtime stupidly early and dropped all of his feeds so quickly. It was easier for me as he wasn't on special formula so I used his normal formula for cereal and cows milk for making puddings and sauces. He had a yoghurt everyday too and vitamins.

Is there any milk substitute you can use for cooking? Any alternative yoghurts?

Just give him a varied diet, make sure he drinks water and as much milk as you can get in to him. That's all you can do, can't force a baby to drink milk, I spent so long battling with mine which didn't get me anywhere and probably made us more stressed!

I'm not sure it's the same as your lo has CMPA, but my eldest dropped her feeds quite rapidly very early on and by the time she was 9 months point blank refused to take a bottle at all. I used to try to add as much formula to her food as I could and would give her her formula in her beaker. She would drink a little bit from that, although not all, but I guess some was better than none.

It could be the formula he doesn't like, so worth asking about changing, or it could be he just doesn't really want his milk and prefers his propper food? X

I had a hell of a time with my first, he hated milk. He stopped having milk a...

Posted
24/03/2018

I had a hell of a time with my first, he hated milk. He stopped having milk at bedtime stupidly early and dropped all of his feeds so quickly. It was easier for me as he wasn't on special formula so I used his normal formula for cereal and cows milk for making puddings and sauces. He had a yoghurt everyday too and vitamins.

Is there any milk substitute you can use for cooking? Any alternative yoghurts?

Just give him a varied diet, make sure he drinks water and as much milk as you can get in to him. That's all you can do, can't force a baby to drink milk, I spent so long battling with mine which didn't get me anywhere and probably made us more stressed!

You can use the alpro soya 1-3 milk in cooking to make up for it, it’s the closest to cows milk with iron calcium etc. Both my kids have had CMPI xx

I had a hell of a time with my first, he hated milk. He stopped having milk a...

Posted
24/03/2018

I had a hell of a time with my first, he hated milk. He stopped having milk at bedtime stupidly early and dropped all of his feeds so quickly. It was easier for me as he wasn't on special formula so I used his normal formula for cereal and cows milk for making puddings and sauces. He had a yoghurt everyday too and vitamins.

Is there any milk substitute you can use for cooking? Any alternative yoghurts?

Just give him a varied diet, make sure he drinks water and as much milk as you can get in to him. That's all you can do, can't force a baby to drink milk, I spent so long battling with mine which didn't get me anywhere and probably made us more stressed!

Thanks for your reply. The dietician told me soya stuff but not before he is one but I will ask the dietician on Monday

I'm not sure it's the same as your lo has CMPA, but my eldest dropped...

Posted
24/03/2018

I'm not sure it's the same as your lo has CMPA, but my eldest dropped her feeds quite rapidly very early on and by the time she was 9 months point blank refused to take a bottle at all. I used to try to add as much formula to her food as I could and would give her her formula in her beaker. She would drink a little bit from that, although not all, but I guess some was better than none.

It could be the formula he doesn't like, so worth asking about changing, or it could be he just doesn't really want his milk and prefers his propper food? X

Thanks for your reply, we don’t think he hates the formula as he took it very well before but probably realised there is something nicer out there!

Also for some bizarre reason he refused the bottle in daddy’s arms this morning but took most of it sitting in his bouncer... has he decided he isn’t a baby anymore 😅🤣

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